Checking in with international liaisons

Open floor

The Stack Exchange community are looking for new community spotlights to feature. It’s something that should be brought up with the community team though, but would be a nice way to cross-reference our different support communities.

General announcements

Also a reminder to moderators: When making edits make sure the post hasn’t somehow been converted to a draft. This appears to happen when editing things in the back-end when they aren’t yet published (spam or pending posts). If you make edits, take responsibility for your edit and make sure it goes live.

WordPress 4.9.2

(Thankfully) no new major items have been trending for 4.9.2, the release of 4.9.3 has been postponed until next week to avoid doing any automated updates right before the weekend.

Checking in with international liaisons

Open floor

The 500 errors when moving posts or topics is identified as being caused by a counting mechanic in bbPress that does… crazy counting. For now making the move from the back-end in wp-admin is the way to go, as the counts only run when using bbPress on the front end.

If you’d like to help shape the future of our support plugin, head on over to the GitHub project page to add issues, and provide feedback on existing ones!

Some improvements are being made to the child theme documentation after seeing a fair amount of confusion about best practices, and will be seeking some cross-team efforts from the Theme Review Team.

If, as a volunteer, you feel users demand too much of you in a manner that feels like you were an employee, reach out and we’ll assign you a custom title to denote that you are in fact a volunteer 🙂

General announcements

A reminder to avoid name-dropping in the #forums Slack room. We are in many ways the public face of WordPress, and perception is a fickle beast. It’s hard to properly convey intentions via text on the internet, and what we say can lose context or be misinterpreted. Let’s help each other to remember not to drop names/usernames in the channel moving forward.

WordPress 4.9.2

No new issues have arisen for 4.9.2 (thankfully, with 4.9.3 on the horizon).

Checking in with international liaisons

Open floor

As discussed last week, some image embeds were lost in the migration to the new bbPress forums, so far the CloudUp service works (for those who have accounts there), but we’ll be looking to re-introduce imgur. Feel free to follow the Meta ticket.

Some links in the various forums are becoming un-clickable after https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6370, it seems that a browser restart solves it in most (all?) cases until a fix can be implemented.

Checking in with international liaisons

Open floor

A request to re-introduce image embed support was brought forward, after the forum upgrade this hasn’t been working for all the previously whitelisted providers.
There exists a meta ticket exists for this issue, and embeds currently work as intended when using the CloudUp service.

In February we’ll be continuing our on-boarding experiment, to help get users, old and new, situated and familiarized with the support process. This is a great way to get involved, or to get a refresher. It covers how to find topics to contribute to, tools to help you, and proper etiquette (how to respond and react). It’s also a great chance to get to know others who are interested in the support aspect of open source!

Lastly, a reminder that calling out users in public channels can be misinterpreted by onlookers, and although there is likely no ill intent behind it, avoiding to call out and name individuals is appreciated. Instead consider linking to threads asking for input on threads rather than users. This also helps us jump into a thread without any bias, as we’ve not been inadvertently drawn towards any one individual.

WordPress 49.1

There have been no new recurring issues with WordPress 4.9/4.9.1 that aren’t already tracked either in our Master List, or in a core ticket.

Checking in with international liaisons

Representatives from the Swedish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and German communities stopped by during this weeks meeting to give an update on how things are going, Sweden mentions increased activity and is very pleased with this!

Next weeks meeting will be skipped, as it’s the holidays and many of us will be with family or friends. Some of us will still be around if there are questions, but no formal gathering on Thursday 28th, we’ll instead meet back January 4th, refreshed and ready to tackle anything that comes our way!

WordPress 4.9.1

No new items have come up, but users are still a bit fuzzy about the new theme/plugin editors, @clorith mentions he can be tagged in such threads that pops up and he’ll handle them.

General announcements

WordPress 4.9.2 is being planned for the end of January, but we make no promises on time until an official core post has been made with the final date.

WordPress 4.9.1

There’s not been any new issues reported against 4.9.1 that isn’t already covered in Trac tickets, most of them appear to be related to the new HTML validator before you can save code (which is a good thing, people are being made aware of their mistakes).

Checking in with international liaisons

The Russian, Swedish and Spanish communities said hi, none had any major issues to report on and we’re glad to see them around every week!

Open floor

A few items were discussed during open floor, as well as a “You’re all doing great work” note for all our lovely volunteers!

Also for the first time (that I can recall at least) we’ve got an empty no-replies list on the international forums, which is a huge feat, so thank you to all our wonderful volunteers for achieving that!

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This blog is used by the team reps for all the WordPress contributor groups to post weekly updates on their team’s activity for the week, and to discuss any big changes to the WordPress project so that everyone can stay up to date.